Summary:Angel comes home from hell twenty years in the future.Buffy died seventeen years ago.A distressed Angel thinks he'll never see her again untill he finds out she might of been reborn.
Disclaimer:I don't own these characters.They belong to the ever so brilliant,but evil Joss Whedon.
Couples:Aroma(Buffy)/Angel
Prologue
Angel new the minute he smelled the beautiful sent of the night that hell was no longer his prison.He breathed an unecassary breath as tears made their way down his face to spill on his burned and slashed chest.He noticed his surroundings where the old mansion he had lived in as Angelus.
He looked down at his naked battered body.He needed a hot shower and a pair of clothes.
After Angel had used the old mansions shower and found some clothes left behind he decided he needed to see Buffy.He new he had been gone long,but maybe she still loved him.Maybe she could forgive his unforgiveble crimes.Angel left the mansion and swiftly moved threw the now unfamiliar streets of Sunny Dale.Untill he reached the home of his beloved.
It was different.It had been painted white and had a new door.Angel let out a shakey breath and knocked on the door.A girl that looked about fourteen answered.She had long blond hair like Buffy's and if Angel didn't know better,Giles eyes.
Jenna:Hello.Can I help you?
Angel:I'm looking for Buffy.Buffy Summers.
Jenna:What?!That's a crule joke sir.
Angel:I don't understand-
He was cut off by a older woman coming to the door.
Joyce:A-Angel?Your Angel?
Angel:Who are you?
Joyce:It's me.Joyce.It's been a very long time...Giles said you were-(pause)you should come in.(Joyce turned to Jenna.)Go back to Your studying Jen.
Jenna:But-
Joyce:Please?
Jenna:Okay.
Jenna went up stairs in a huff as Angel entered the house.Joyce lead him to the kitchen.
Joyce:That was Jenna.Buffy's fourteen year old sister.
Angel:S-sister?
Joyce:Yes.Me and Giles got married sixteen years ago.A year after...
Angel:What?
Joyce:Angel it's been twenty years since you left.Buf-Buffy died seventeen years ago.
Chapter1
Angel turned pure white.Paler then he ever had been in his life.Buffy dead?How could it be?How could his Buffy be dead?Angel colapsed in a near by chair.Joyce looking at him sadly.
Joyce:It all happened so long ago.
Angel:How?
Joyce:Willow and Buffy went out of town on a college brake.They went to Salem and ran into a old freind of Buffy's,Pike.He hunted vampires and there was a praticular group that were causing alot of trouble.Buffy ended up out numbered in a fight with a gange of them.Buffy and Pike died,but Willow lived with just a broken arm.
Angel:I can't believe she's gone...what about the others?
Joyce:Xander is married to a nice ex-demon named Anya.They have a twelve year old daughter.Willow is with her girl friend Tara now,they adopted a six year old boy.Willow and Tara bothe own a many magic shops all over the country with Anya.Xander eventually ended up becoming a teacher.He works at Sunny Dale Communtiy College now.A slayer was called after Buffy named Faith and she works for Willow at the local magic shop.Giles...G-Giles died two years ago in a car accident.
Angel looked down sadly.Joyce gave him a weak smile.
Joyce:My daughter...I think you should know that Buffy-she loved you very much,and she didn't blame you.She felt very guilty for causing your death.
Angel closed his eyes and finaly let his tears loose as he opened them.He suddenly needed to get very far away.He said a very silent bye and almost ran out of the house.Running his fangers threw his hair.He had to get sleep.He decided to go back tot the mansion and lie down.He had to think,now that Buffy was gone he had to find out what to do with his life.
He closed his eyes and cried himself to sleep...
Angel saw a beautiful young woman in his dream.She had dark hair,dark skin,and lovely brown eyes.A look of comfort in them that reminded him of his Buffy's green eyes.She smiled and a warmth filled him for some strange reason.A very,very familiar warmth in a unfamiliar world.
She reached her hand out to him and he took them in his own.He closed his eyes and felt her lips touch his,then opened them to see his magnifisent Buffy infront of him.Covered in sunlight.
Angel:I thought you were gone...that your time ended...
Buffy:No my love.I've just started a new begining.
Angel woke.Quiockly noting that he was alone.That she was not their.Just a dream,he thought.Even so the words she had whispered burned in his brain,"No my love.I've just started a new begining."
Two hours away in L.A. Aroma Emma Jonse woke in her empty bedroom.Another one,she thought.She had had vivid dreams like that since she was ten,but this one was extremely weird.Who the hell was the guy that she cdouldn't get out of her head?What was his name?Was she insane for thinking for a minute he might be real?
Aroma flipped over in her bed.Why couldn't she just be normal?
Angel decided since he had nothing else to realy do he'd go to the library and look up dreams.It wasn't his thing.Getting in to mythology or what ever,but he justnew this dream ment something.After about a hour of sitting in the corner of the library Angel began to fall to sleep.
Aroma sat in her room,which she had been locked in and forced to study.She felt very sleepy and her eyes began to close,as if having a mind of their own.Aroma welcomed the sleep,and distraction from her work.
Angel saw a woman giving birth she pushed and pushed untill the baby came out and she smiled up at who seemed like her husband.
Doctor:Here meet your baby.
Woman:Hello Aroma Emma Jonse.
Angel turned and a calendar flashed, 2001 Monday January 14.Then Angel turned and a clock came to view,2:15 am.
Angel woke and slamed the book he held shut.He let out a breath and suddenly had a outrages hunch.He found a pay phone and dialed Buffy's old number.Thankfully it was the same.
Joyce:he-
Angel:what day did Buffy die?
Joyce:Angel-
Angel:It's important.What day?
Joyce:M-monday.January 14.
Angel:2001?
Joyce:Ye-yes.Urly that morning.
Angel hung up the phone.He had a person to find.
Chapter2
Angel quickly learned how to manuver the dreadful thing Giles and the others has called a computer.Now so much more up dated then it was years ago he easily found hospital records,but couldn't access them.So he did a search on the Jonse's in Sunny Dale and L.A..He found four matches.
Angel:Okay.What to do know?
He copied the adresses and numbers of the Jonse's.Three lived in Sunny Dale and one in L.A..Angel decided to call the L.A. number first.He didn't know why,but he had a feeling.He dialed nerviously,his hands shaking.
Aroma plaged by her dream nerviously fitled with the strains sticking out of her fussy shirt.She could see the mans hopeful and shocked face as he fadded away and she woke.Why the hell did she have a dream about being born?
Aroma's thoughts where interrupted by her phone ringing.
Aroma:Hello?
Angel:I-is Aroma there?
Aroma:This is she,the one and only.(Pause)Hello?
Angel felt the air go out of him and then he was pulled from the room and found himself in a large white room.
Aroma:Hello?!Your lose!
She hung up and shrugged before frowning.Man that dude sounded like the guy from my dream,she thought.
Angel gulped and saw two beings infront of him.A blue man,and a blue woman.
Woman:Hello lower being.We are the oracles.
Man:We have called you here to discuss the girl.
Angel:S-so it is her?
Woman:Why ask?You already know don't you lower being?
Man:You can sense her.
Angel nodded,tears filling his eyes.His Buffy was still alive,well sort of.
Angel:What do I do?W-why am I here?
Woman:You must go to her.She will be the new slayer.The other one is dieing.
Angel:Faith right?
Man:Yes.She needs to be trained,but not by the Council,they can't prepare her for what's to come.You need to lower being.You'll be together in time.
Angel:No we won't.The curse-
Woman:There is no curse!That has been done is what is ment to be!Now be gone lower being,and good luck!
Angel woke by the pay phone he had used and saw anry people walking over his body.He gave a sheepish smile and stood,then walked slowly back to the mansion.Tomorrow he would get the cash he saved that luckily was still around and buy a car.He was moving to L.A..
Aroma and her friends usually went to a club called "The Joint" on Saturdays.This Saturday was no exception.Angel followed the beautiful young girl into the club unoticed.He had moved to L.A. two days urlior and had spent the days thinking of her and his nights watching her.
She wasn't exactly his Buffy,but she was so much like her,and had the same spirited passion Buffy had.If She hadn't been Buffy recarnated he would of probably still had feelings for her.He had to smile at her naiveness of her own self.She seemed as if she felt lost,and had a messed up life.She had no idea...
Aroma:You guys will never beleive the dreams I've been having!(Angel's ears percked up.)There so weird.
Lexy:What are they about!
Myra:Is there a guy!
Michelle:Theres a guy isn't there.
Aroma:Maybe...
Lexy elbows her lighltly in the stomache.
Lexy:Theres a guy!What's he look like?Does he do stuff!
Aroma:Down girl.He didn't-we didn't do anything like that.Just like a kiss in one,but other then that...
Lexy:But you've thought of him right?
Myra:Yeah?
Aroma:Yeah.He was just so cute.I'd never seen him before,I had no idea my mind could be so good at coming up with hotties.The last cute guy I had in a dream was when I was fifteen and he was that new famious acter-
Myra:Brad Pitt Junior.
Aroma:Yeah.
They giggled and Angel smiled proudly.More confident about meeting her now that he new she thought he was a "hottie".Aroma stood from the four girls table and excused herself to the ladies room.That was when Angel noticed a red headed vampire girl following Aroma.Angel followed close behind.Ready for a good fight.
Angel stood at the door of the ladies room.At first thinking maybe the vamp was just at the club looking for a victum,not stalking Buffy before he heard a loud bange and girls rushed out of the bathroom.
Angel ran in to see the vamp holding Aroma.She had her pinned to a bathroom stall door.Arom screamed as the girls fangs cames tords her neck and Angel moved into action.Grabbing the vampire and tossing it into another wall.Aroma just stood and watched as the vampire cut Angel with her nails and ran off.
Aroma went to Angel and bent down by him before he could run after the vamp.She rested a hand on his shoulder and the vamp was forgotten.He smiled at her and her eyes widened.
Aroma:I know you.
Chapter3
Aroma sat in Angel's passenger seat of his car,taking in everything he had told her.Angel had tald her everything,deciding she needed to know he was a vampire and of her past life.
Aroma:So my name was Buffy?Man...I keep getting stuck with parents that probably thought up my name at the last minute.
Angel:I don't know...I think Aroma suits you.
Aroma:Thinks.
He gave her a gentle smile,then there was a ackward pause.Aroma looked out the window of Angel's car,and at her house.She had livedin that house her whole life,well she had thought,but the had been another life.A life where her and this Angel had been in love.Had shared few years...or was it only months?Then it had ended and now here she was.
How did he feel,knowing that this was his true love,only not.She could understand how odd it might be for him.She knew it would be odd for her.
Aroma:Angel?
Angel:yes?
Aroma:If it means anything to you,I'm glad that I met you,and that were gonna spend time together.From what I felt in my dreams...I think Buffy-well I was trying to tell myself there was some one I could trust some where.And I don't trust realy any one,but I do now.
Angel:It means alot.
Aroma gave him one last smile,then rushed inside.
Angel:Alot...
Angel slowly drove away after watching Aroma enter her home.He had to give her credit for taking his news so well.She had imeddiately believed him,but that was probably because of the dreams she said she had had since she was only ten.He remembered her telling him about only talking abou them with her school counciler cause her friends would think she was nuts...
Aroma:You were in my dreams.I just told my friends about them tonight,but I've had them for years.
Angel:How long?
Aroma:Since I was ten...so intense it scared me some times.I just got this feeling,but not realy a bad feeling,just something I never realy feel...
She had a sweet voice low tone in her voice when she confessed these things to him,like Angel had expected.Buffy had that voice.Part shy,part trusting.He loved that she had trusted him.That was what he was aiming for with telling her everything.
Trust was a big aspect in a working..."relationship"...and he wanted his second chance to be built on it.The most warmful moment him and Aroma had was when he showed her his face to prove what he was...
Aroma:Wow it's-
Angel:Hideous.
Looking down ashamed Angel wondered if he should of told her of his true nature.Why would she believe anything he said now?
Aroma:Not bad.You actually still look pretty cute.
Angel:I-I do.
Aroma:Yeah.(She leaned in closer to Angel's face.)It's your eyes.That girl-vampire that attacked me only had blood lust in her eyes,but yours are different.Passionate,warm,l-loving even.
Angel:Thank you.
He changed back to his human face.
Angel pulled up to his apartment and went in with a smug look on his face.He was actually happy.Not perfectly,but content.He sat on his couch and fell asleep with nothing,but high hopes for tomorrow.
Aroma woke with the sound of her parents fighting.She took a deep breath when finally dressed and went down stairs.Smiling when she took Angel's number she had written down of her night stand.Remembering the long talk they had had,and the long needed comfort she had felt with him.
She bravely took a deep breath and walked into the kitchen.Her mother was washing the dishes while her father was getting his work together to leave.Bothe evoiding each other for what ever reason they had been fighting about twenty minutes ago.
Aroma:Good morning.
Mr.Jonse:Good morning.Did you have a good night?You know,last night when you came home at 2:oo am?
Aroma:Sorry.
Mr.Jonse:Sorry?Where the hell where you!
Aroma:I was at a...I left the club with a friend who drived me home.We talked for a long time,that's all.
Mrs.Jonse:That's all?
Aroma:Yeah!God mom,what did you think I was doing!
Mr.Jonse:Don't talk to your mother like that!
Aroma shook her head and laughed once she got to the kitchen door.
Aroma:And when I get back later tonight who's going to continue this fight,you?You'll be at some meeting a thousand miles away.
Aroma slamed the door.It was true,her father was a lawyer and never around.Her mother was a teacher so she usually was to busy for Aroma because she had to look over thirty three other teens.It had always been that way,it just hadn't taken such a tole on her parents marrige before.
Aroma shook her head as she walked up to the front door of her friend Lexy's house.She needed to do some hard core shopping to take her mind off of her parents.
In the middle of a grave yard a tall blond figure walked threw the darkness.Stopping at a garve and looking down sadly.Anette sat down and placed one white rose on it as her heart acked.She closed her eyes and re-opened them to look down at Buffy Summers grave.
Anette:I miss you mom,but grandma Joyce called me today and told me about dad.Who he realy was and why you realy gave me up.And how he just got out of hell...
Faith tried to fight off the vampires,but there were to many.She screamed and let out a frustrated sigh as they held her tightly.Then one reached out and snapped her neck and it was over.She dropped to the floor,a lifless corpse,as the fates watched from above.
It was time to call the new slayer.Aroma.
Chapter4
Aroma and Angel spared fearsly in a wide abandoned gym.Angel had found it and made it there official training place.It had been a month that they'd been fighting together,after the council delivered the message that Aroma was a slayer they had begun their weekly training.Bothe improving with each match against each other.
Aroma gave Angel a firm kick to the back of his knee and he fell.Aroma went to make another move,but Angel hit her leg which knocked her down roughly.Angel quickly jumped up to a fighting stance,but dropped it when Aroma grabbed her leg and hissed.
Angel:What's rong?
Aroma:My leg hurts.I fell on it rong.(Angel came to her and sat by her.He squeazed her knee and she gasped.)Don't do that!
Angel:Sorry.It will be fine tomorrow,it's nothing serious.
Voice:Oh no,it's serious.
Angel and Aroma turned there heads to see a man in odd clothes standing near them.
Angel:Whistler?
Whistler:In the flesh.
Angel:Why are you here?
Whistler:Cause theres trouble.Big trouble.Involving your little'en.
Angel:What,little'en?What are you-
Whistler:Can't tell you but you'll find out.
Aroma:So this is Whistler.Angel told me about you.
Whistler turned to Aroma and smiled.
Whistler:I've heard lot's about you.
Angel:Okay now that we've small talked get to the point.
Whistler:This is about a nineteen year old girl named Anette.She's a magger Wicca,and I mean magger.She's got alot of power evil doers want to get there hands on.
Angel:Okay.What does this have to do with us?
Whistler:She's dating a guy named Logen,twenty three.He's a evil warlock,wants her to join the evil team,but if she does were all screwed when the end comes.
Angel frowned.
Angel:What do I do?
Whistler:I want you to find her.Talk to her and get her away from Logen.He's bad news.
Whistler snapped his fangers and was gone.Aroma laughed.
Aroma:Is he always that cryptic?
Angel:Yes.
Anette walked threw a small dance club filled with people,untill she reached a table were a tall blond man sat.He looked up at her and smiled looking her over with seductive blue eyes.Anette smiled back and her green eyes filled with playfulness.She sat on his lap.
Anette:Hey baby.
Logen:Hey yourself.Where've you been,the word was you left town a day.
Anette:Went to moms grave.
Logen:Oh,well I'm glad your back.
They leaned in and shared a rough,but playfull kiss.Anette pulled away and flipped her hair,never taking her eyes off Logen's.
Anette:Your so damn hot.
Logen:You have no idea.
Angel entered the club called,"Morbid",that he learned Anette would be at that night.He stepped up to the bar and waved his hand tords the woman behind the counter.She appraoched him with a saucey smile.
Woman:What can I get for you,a drink or me?
Angel:Ah...(She winked at him and Angel new if he could he'd be blushing.)A-actually I'm looking for a guy name Logen.
Woman:Oh,he's over there-(The woman pointed to a back table.)-With Anette.
Angel:Thanks.
Angel turned and walked to Logen and Anette's table.He stopped a few feet away when he noticed how "into" each other they were.He coughed loudly and Logen turned his head to look up at Angel.
Logen:What can I do for you?
Anette,who was still on Logen's lap,gave Angel a odd look.
Angel:I need to speak with Anette.
Logen:Why?
Anette:It's okay Logen.Go get us another drink.
Logen gave Angel and Anette a questioning look,then stood and walked away from the table.
Anette:So,sit down.(Angel sat down on the opposite side of Anette.He looked her over and thought she looked very familiar,but then brushed it off.)Now let's cut to the chase,what do you want with me vampire?
Angel:How'd you know I'm-
Anette:It's a gift.(She laughed.)No,it's a curse,but what can you do.Destinys,destiny.Can't change it.
Angel:Yeah.I'm not hear to hurt you Anette.I want your help,and I want to help you as well.
Anette:How can you help me,and why would you?Your a vampire.
Angel:I'm not just any vampire,this might sound crazy,but I have a soul.I can help you.
Anette's face turned paler then it already was and she stood from the table.Angel stood to,not knowing what he had said wrong.
Anette:What-is that supposed to be some kind of joke?!Am I suppose to laugh?
Angel:No I-
Anette:Get out!Get out of here know!
Angel backed away,knowing he had some how made her angry and rushed out of the club.What was that all about?
Angel called Aroma while driving in his car.
Aroma:Hello.
Angel:Hi it's me.
Aroma:Oh hey.How'd it go with Anette?
Angel:Not to well,I think we need to check out this girls back round.Can I pick you up and you can bring that computer thing-
Anette:Lab top.
Angel:Lab top,to my apartment?
Anette:Sure.Bye.
Angel:Bye.
The council member Vernon Black,drove infront of Aroma Jonses house.Turning to a man in the passangers seat,while watching Aroma appraoch Angel's car and get in.
Vernon:So the slayer works with the vampire?
Man:Apparently.
Vernon:That's ubseam.
Man:She's not the first.
They watched Angel drive away.
Vernon:Do we follow?
Man:Wait untill tomorrow in the day when she's alone.
Aroma and Angel sat on a small couch in Angel's apartment looking threw records,when Aroma sreacked.
Angel:What?
Aroma:I found something on Anette...
Angel:Anette what?
Aroma:Anette Summers.
Epologue
Angel:What?
Aroma:Anette Summers was born in 1999 at Brooks Den Hospital in L.A..She was...
Angel:Was what?
Aroma:She-she was adopted by Hank Summers from his daughter-
Angel:Buffy Summers.
Angel was so shocked.If that thing was corrected Buffy hadn't waited to long to get over him.She had slept with another man...
Aroma:Ah Angel?
Angel:Ye-yeah?
Aroma:You know how you told me you and Buffy slept together on her 17th birthday?
Angel:Right.
Aroma:Well,Anette was born exactly nine months after that day,so unless Buffy slept with some one else that night...
Angel:I'm a father.
A very agitated vampire pushed threw the group of people in club Morbid untill stopping at the table occupied by Logen and a sad looking Anette.
Logen smiled at the vampire and stood from the table.He showed the vampire his hand and he took it.They shook and Logen lead the vampire to a empty corner.
Logen:So,what can you tell me about the vampire Angel's return...ah,Spike is it?
Spike:Spike's me name mate.
To be continued...(Sequeal coming soon.)